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71–72;
Successes, 11;
PPG P-10 Process, 61–64;
Technical assessment, 9–26;
Preheating batch and cullet,
Traditional practice, 49–58;
73–74;
Quality costs, 12
Raining Bed Batch/Cullet
Preheater, 78–79;
Mixed fuel furnaces, 57–58
Segmented Melting, 60–61;
Next Generation Melting System, 105
Submerged Combustion Melting Nienburger Glas Batch Preheater, 77–78
(SCM), 66–67 Non-conventional melting
Labor, costs of glass melting, 42
systems, 80-85
Lead crystal and crystal glasses, 111–
112
Nuclear Waste Vitrification, 71–72
Literature, categorization of, 189
Oxy-fuel conversion, 92-93
Literature chart, 190–213
Oxy-fuel furnace, 54-56
Literature and patent review–glass
technology, criteria for, 180–187
Oxy-fuel, fired front-end, 173–174
Liquid phase, 119–121
PPG P-10 process, 61-64;
Emissions controls of, 63;
Marketing
Installation of, 63–64
Statistics and trends, 33–39;
Patents, categorization of, 215
Trends by segment, 34–39
Patents, chart, 216-238
Melting
Primer for glassmaking, 111-136
Capital costs of, 40;
Pot/day tank furnace, 53–54
Production costs of, 41;
Preheating batch, 92
Feasibility of electric
Preheating batch and cullet, 73–74
furnaces, 41;
Process design, for melting, 91
Labor costs of, 42;
Processing
Technical areas to
consider, 90–94
standardized aspects of, 90–91
Melting Technology
Raining Bed Batch, cullet
Advances, 5–6, 9;
preheater, 78–79
Advancing, 90–94;
Rapid Melting and refining
Areas for exploration, 102;
(RAMAR), 81–83;
Economics of, 39–42;
system steps of, 81–83
Electric, advantages and
Raw materials and batch
disadvantages, 57; formulation, 112–115
Historic processes, 10–11;
Recuperative Furnace, 53
Industry Perspective, 89–100; Redox state, 125
Innovations in economic stimuli Refining, 125–127
for, 32–33 Refractory component solution, 122–124
Issues defined, 29;
Refractories, 17–18
Motivation to advance, 21–23;
Process of, 50–51;
Regenerative furnace, 5152
Revolutionary changes, 11;
Status of, 9–10;
Stimuli for development, 20;
Segments, of glass industry, 2; 111–115
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